New Delhi: A day after the Congress party revamped its organisation, it is now likely that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will reshuffle the Cabinet on Monday. The swearing in for the new set of Cabinet Ministers is scheduled for 5:30 pm on Monday at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. It is possibly the last such change before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The exit of the DMK and the TMC, as well as the resignations of Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar over the Railway bribery case and coalgate scandals has forced the Congress to make changes in the Cabinet portfolios. Minister Mallikarjun Kharge is likely to be shifted to the Railways.
CP Joshi, who had taken charge of the Railway Ministry after Pawan Bansal's resignation, resigned on Sunday. "Whatever new role the party assigns me I will perform that to the best of my ability," Joshi tweeted.
Sis Ram Ola from Rajasthan will most probably be taking over Labour Minister and Girija Vyas could be stepping in for Ajay Maken, who resigned as Urban Affairs Minister to focus on the party. Maken's resignation comes ahead of Assembly elections in Delhi later this year....
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09:03 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Kolkata: Stating that the JD(U)-BJP split will weaken the communal forces of the country, Samajwadi Party on Sunday said the move will propel the process of strengthening anti-Congress, anti-BJP formations ahead of the next Lok Sabha polls. "The split in NDA between JD(U) and BJP will weaken the communal forces of the country. This split will provide leverage to the move of building an anti-Congress, anti- BJP platform ahead of...
03:18 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party-Janata Dal United divorce is becoming inevitable. The crucial decision is likely to be taken in the next 24 hours. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will again be hinting at a JD(U)-BJP divide at his public rally in Katihar on Friday. Nitish Kumar has also called a meeting with his confidants in Patna on Friday where the crucial decision may...
07:45 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Kolkata: The CPM on Wednesday dubbed Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee's call for a federal front a "joke" and said her asking non-Congress and non-BJP regional parties to form a front for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls would be a damp squib. "This is a joke. Since when has she (West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee) become federal? She is a unitary. When did she stand for federal structures?" CPM leader...
12:46 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is confident of sailing through even if he splits with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. The process of garnering support in the Bihar Assembly is on so that JD(U) government stays in power in Bihar. JD(U) leaders have reportedly been asked to contact independent MLAs and get their support. Three MLAs have already vouched to back the JD(U), say sources. The JD(U)...
02:08 PM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat played peacemaker on Tuesday and averted the Bharatiya Janata Part's crisis by convincing LK Advani to come back into the party fold. Advani withdrew his resignation and has now returned to all party posts. The announcement was made by BJP President Rajnath Singh at a press meet on Tuesday evening. Flanked by several senior leaders including Uma Bharti and Sushma Swaraj,...
07:47 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: As the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party battle it out over the coal scam and internal crisis, Third Front leaders are stepping up. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik told CNN-IBN that both Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi don't make the prime ministerial cut and that the Third Front's time has come. "Let me make it quite...
03:48 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Punching holes in the claims of state Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Planning Commission working paper said that Gujarat has underperformed in health and education sectors. According to a Planning Commission's paper on 'Refining State Level Comparisons in India', "Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have each underperformed in two of the three sectors analysed." The working paper 2012 series has analysed the performance of...
02:32 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has now officially become the man who will pilot the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral fortunes in the next general election. Just hours after being anointed the BJP's poll campaign chief, Narendra Modi reached Ahmedabad to a rousing welcome. Supporters and party workers in Gujarat turned out in full strength to welcome the Chief Minister home. On Sunday, BJP President Rajnath Singh named Modi...
11:27 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Jaipur: BJP veteran LK Advani on Saturday said he had a stomach upset that forced him to skip the party's national executive meet, breaking his silence over his ill health that fuelled speculation on his perceived opposition to Narendra Modi getting a key post. Advani, however, did not make any mention of Modi in his video address to a religious event here he was due to attend on a day...
11:37 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Chandigarh: NDA ally Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday welcomed BJP's decision to anoint Narendra Modi as Chairman of its Election Campaign Committee for the 2014 polls, saying the decision would be "catalytic" in the alliance's victory march. "The people of the country are looking towards National Democratic Alliance to save the country from the clutches of most corrupt UPA government. As Narendra Modi has been made Chairman of Poll Campaign...
05:55 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who had once courted controversy by indicating that politicians should retire at the age of 65, on Sunday said there was nothing called as era in BJP and it was time for younger generation to take over the party's reins. "There is nothing called era in the BJP but I feel it is the time for younger generation to take over the reins of...
04:40 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday congratulated Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on being anointed as BJP's 2014 poll campaign chairman. He said, "I congratulate Narendra Modi and we shall collectively ensure BJP's victory." ...
04:30 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems to have split the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) down the middle over his proposed role in the 2014 elections with his angry supporters coming out on the streets and protesting outside party stalwart LK Advani's house even as the main opposition's chief Rajnath Singh offered a compromise formula to bridge the divide by suggesting Modi's name as the Lok Sabha elections' poll campaign convenor. ...
11:18 PM, Jun 08, 2013
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11:12 PM, Jun 08, 2013
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, while commenting on BJP's National Executive meet, said, "I have already made a statement that media is giving disproportionate amount of importance to certain individuals. Now I'm hearing that there are protests outside Advani's residence. This is an indication." ...
11:00 PM, Jun 08, 2013
With LK Advani now boycotting BJP's National Executive meet in Goa, there is a huge question mark on whether there will be any decision at all on Narendra Modi's larger role in the upcoming general elections. With Advani having made up his mind, its up to BJP president Rajnath Singh to evolve a way out of the crisis. ...
10:16 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems to have split the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) down the middle over his proposed role in the 2014 elections with his angry supporters coming out on the streets and protesting outside party stalwart LK Advani's house even as the main opposition's chief Rajnath Singh offered a compromise formula to bridge the divide by suggesting Modi's name as the Lok Sabha elections' poll...
08:18 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: Apparently seeking to drive a wedge in BJP, Congress on Saturday said the nation "stands warned" over the kind of "rowdyism" witnessed outside the residence of LK Advani who skipped BJP conclave in Goa reportedly to express his opposition to Narendra Modi getting bigger role in party. "Today what is happening outside Advani's residence should frighten all of us. If a man who is virtually the architect of...
06:31 PM, Jun 08, 2013
BJP chief Rajnath Singh has reportedly offered a peace formula to the LK Advani camp, suggesting that Narendra Modi be made the poll panel convenor. However, sources say there is no clarity if Modi will accept this as he wants to be the chairman of the poll panel. ...
06:10 PM, Jun 08, 2013
